Re: New to Virgin - Devolo Wifi Booster - yes or no

on ‎18-02-201915:20

Go into the Hub3 settings... (type in http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.100.1 if in modem mode) into your web browser’s url box) and in "smart wifi" (if you have it) disable "channel optimisation" - save changes. Then, go to advanced>wireless>security, rename the 2.4 & 5 GHz network ssid's. Just change 'em to whatever you like and something that will differentiate them (e.g - xxxxx2 & xxxxx5) -- use the same password if you like, Then, save/apply settings and restart the Hub. Your 2 wifi networks will now be clearly separated - and you can then select the network you want to connect to individually from the "available networks" list on each device. 5 GHz is usually better and subject to less interference (and is better for iDevices ) than the 2.4 one - although this one has the better "range" and some older/cheaper/dumber devices can only use this one. Also use a wifi analyser App to check which 2.4 channels are being heavily used around you and move yours to one that is less so. See if that helps - you will lose the “seamless roaming” benefits but it may not matter and you can always "factory reset" it back if you prefer the way it was or it doesn’t help.

Re: New to Virgin - Devolo Wifi Booster - yes or no

on ‎20-06-201912:42

Hi,I have Vivid 200 Broadband at home.I recently bought 2 Devolo WiFi Repeaters. I was able to successfully configure and add both Devolo WiFi Repeaters to my home networkAfter a little while, around 15 minutes later, I was unable to access the internet, as there seemed to be a conflict between the WiFi Repeaters and the Super Hub 3. Through a process of trial and error I was able to establish that adding the Devolo WiFi Repeaters [single or both] to the network was the reason I could not access the Internet, once the Devolo WiFi Repeater was added to the Network.I already have other Devolo products [dLAN 200 AV Mini and dLAN 200 AV WiFi, plus dLAN 1200+ ac and 1200+ WiFi ac] installed and working without any issues.As I was able to reproduce the problem by adding the Devolo WiFi Repeaters each time, I returned the Devolo WiFi Repeaters, so I am now considering the Devolo Magic 2 Mesh-WiFi devices. However, these new devices are not backwards compatible and considerably more expensive than the Devolo WiFi Repeaters.